At one point during the interrogation, the investigators even threatened to have his pet Labrador Retriever, Margosha, euthanized as a stray, and brought the dog into the room so he could say goodbye. “OK? Your dog’s now gone, forget about it,” said an investigator.

Finally, after curling up with the dog on the floor, Perez broke down and confessed. He said he had stabbed his father multiple times with a pair of scissors during an altercation in which his father hit Perez over the head with a beer bottle.

Perez’s father wasn’t dead — or even missing. Thomas Sr. was at Los Angeles International Airport waiting for a flight to see his daughter in Northern California. But police didn’t immediately tell Perez.

  • @[email protected]
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    armed mob

    dare I ask why they should be armed? what good do you think will come from that?

    • @CheeseNoodle
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      In the US cops routinely beat up unarmed peaceful protestors while being pretty respectful to armed but still ostensibly peaceful protestors.

    • @[email protected]
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      216 months ago

      Peace would be ideal. But the reality is that with the manageable sized protesters that show up, they would probably order the crowd to disperse and when they don’t, you’re likely to be beaten, tear gased, and arrested by some militant armed thugs in riot gear despite being peaceful. It might make rounds in the news for a couple of days then everyone would forget about it before long and nothing will change as usual. All the while the ones who sit above the law (you know, the class that cops protect) are laughing away while sipping fancy wine in their gilded towers with private security, looking down at the entertaining misfortune of the poor batteries that power their money printing machine.

    • Cyrus Draegur
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      216 months ago

      Those fucking bastard pigs are already an armed mob and they’re more armed than we’d ever be. There’s no winning against them in any “fair” fight.

      • @jordanlund
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        ACAB - but don’t advocate killing ANYONE.

          • @jordanlundM
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            Oh, people have tried, they get laughed off and ignored.

            • @[email protected]
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              26 months ago

              Well that seems like a double standard. What makes a cop’s life worth more than an innocent cow? Some kind of supposed biological supremacy?

      • @[email protected]
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        -16 months ago

        and you think you’ll just get away with shooting a cop?? even if they were guilty you’d be gunned down by their buddies in your sleep.

        • @[email protected]
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          -26 months ago

          If the protesters outnumber the cops and are all armed, the cops would likely fall back or be outgunned, even if the protesters take losses.